http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/user_friendly/popular/2009-08-15T01:00:03-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2009-08-15T01:00:03-07:00Jai Vikram Singh Vermahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4171450/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576880-convert-datetime-in-python-to-user-friendly-repres/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576880 by <a href="/recipes/users/4171450/">Jai Vikram Singh Verma</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ago/">ago</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/datetime/">datetime</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/parse/">parse</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/representation/">representation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/string/">string</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/user_friendly/">user_friendly</a>). </p> <p>A small contribution to the developer community.</p> <p>This module caters to the need of developers who want to put date &amp; time of post in terms like <br /> "X days, Y hrs ago", "A hours B mins ago", etc. in their applications rather then a basic timestamp <br /> like "2009-08-15 03:03:00". Additionally it also <br /> provides since epoch for a given datetime. </p> <p>It takes in a Python datetime object as an input <br /> and provides a fancy datetime (as I call it) and <br /> the seconds since epoch. </p>